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Desai & Diwanji

Desai & Diwanji is a law firm in India, with 302 professionals and 42 lawyers listed on its own site.

Jurisdiction
India
Founded
Not stated
Professionals
302
Offices
4
Recognitions
4
Lawyers on file
42
In the news
2
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India
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Organization

18 practice areas and sectors · 42 lawyers on the firm’s site

How Desai & Diwanji is organised, read from the titles and practice areas it publishes for each lawyer. A head is named only where the firm states one; otherwise the partner admitted earliest on record stands first and is labelled so.

Leadership

Corporate and Commercial

17

Lawyers

Anoj Menon, Farida Dholkawala, Jaya Devashish, Joebin Devassy, Mitali Mehta, Natasha Treasurywala, Nitya Chadha, Parth Sharma, Pooja Sable, Rachna Jainand 6 more

Mergers & Acquisitions

16

Lawyers

Anoj Menon, Ashlesha Gowariker, Farida Dholkawala, Joebin Devassy, Mitali Mehta, Natasha Treasurywala, Nitya Chadha, Pooja Sable, Prasad Gangadharan, Rachna Jainand 5 more

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

14

Lawyers

Parth Sharma, Pradeep Mane, Prasad Gangadharan, Ruzbeh Mistry, Sameer Patel, Sanjay Israni, Aman Arora, Ankit Premchandani, Himank Singh, Sahil Harjaniand 3 more

Private Clients, Trusts and Estates

13

Lawyers

Abbas Chandurwala, Anoj Menon, Pradeep Mane, Ruzbeh Mistry, Aman Arora, Karishma Kaji, Kunal Shetty, Rohan Saundankar, Sahil Harjani, Sharva Pandyaand 2 more

Real Estate and Construction

13

Lawyers

Ashlesha Gowariker, Joebin Devassy, Rajeev Yadav, Ruzbeh Mistry, Aman Arora, Ankit Premchandani, Karishma Kaji, Kunal Shetty, Rohan Saundankar, Sahil Harjaniand 2 more

Regulatory and Compliance

13

Lawyers

Durgesh Khanapurkar, Farida Dholkawala, Jaya Devashish, Mitali Mehta, Natasha Treasurywala, Nitya Chadha, Pooja Sable, Rahul Chauhan, Rohan Kumar, Sanjay Israniand 2 more

Insolvency

12

Lawyers

Nitya Chadha, Parth Sharma, Pradeep Mane, Rajeev Yadav, Ruzbeh Mistry, Aman Arora, Himank Singh, Sahil Harjani, Shraddha Chaudhri, Sonali Mehtaand 1 more

Banking and Finance

8

Lawyers

Natasha Treasurywala, Parth Sharma, Rachna Jain, Rahul Chauhan, Shireen Langrana, Grishma Nitin, Vishal Mali

Employment and Labour

8

Lawyers

Ashlesha Gowariker, Durgesh Khanapurkar, Joebin Devassy, Rachna Jain, Samidha Tyagi, Shireen Langrana, Ankit Premchandani

Technology

6

Lawyers

Anubhav Mehta, Joebin Devassy, Pooja Sable, Samidha Tyagi, Shireen Langrana

Competition

5

Lawyers

Joebin Devassy, Natasha Treasurywala, Rachna Jain, Rohan Kumar

Energy and Natural Resources

5

Lawyers

Ashlesha Gowariker, Mitali Mehta, Rahul Chauhan, Sameer Patel

Infrastructure and Project Development

5

Lawyers

Ashlesha Gowariker, Rahul Chauhan, Sahil Harjani, Vishal Mali

Funds

4

Lawyers

Mitali Mehta, Natasha Treasurywala, Nitya Chadha

Boardroom Strategy and Risk Management

3

Lawyers

Anoj Menon, Ashlesha Gowariker, Shreevardhan Sinha

Media and Entertainment

3

Lawyers

Ashlesha Gowariker, Joebin Devassy

Private Equity, Venture Capital & Start-ups

3

Lawyers

Rohan Kumar, Shreevardhan Sinha

White Collar Crimes and Investigations

3

Lawyers

Himank Singh, Sahil Harjani

2 of Desai & Diwanji’s profiles print the firm’s whole practice list rather than the person’s own, so they are left out of the groups above.

1 lawyers list no practice area on the firm’s site; they appear in the list below.

Lawyers

42 on the firm’s own site

Names, titles and practice areas as Desai & Diwanji publishes them, senior titles first. Each name opens the firm’s own page for that person.

  • Abbas ChandurwalaSenior PartnerPrivate Clients, Trusts and Estates
  • Anoj MenonSenior PartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Corporate and Commercial · Private Clients, Trusts and Estates · Boardroom Strategy and Risk Management
  • Ashlesha GowarikerSenior PartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Infrastructure and Project Development · Energy and Natural Resources · Real Estate and Construction
  • Joebin DevassySenior PartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Real Estate and Construction · Technology · Corporate and Commercial
  • Parth SharmaSenior PartnerBanking and Finance · Insolvency · Corporate and Commercial · Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Rachna JainSenior PartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Competition · Corporate and Commercial · Employment and Labour
  • Ruzbeh MistrySenior PartnerReal Estate and Construction · Litigation and Dispute Resolution · Private Clients, Trusts and Estates · Insolvency
  • Shreevardhan SinhaSenior PartnerCorporate and Commercial · Mergers & Acquisitions · Private Equity, Venture Capital & Start-ups · Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
  • Sumant NayakSenior PartnerInfrastructure and Project Development · Banking and Finance · Litigation and Dispute Resolution · Insolvency
  • Akshay BhagchandaniPartnerCorporate and Commercial · Mergers & Acquisitions · Funds · Real Estate and Construction
  • Anubhav MehtaPartnerBanking and Finance · Regulatory and Compliance · Technology
  • Durgesh KhanapurkarPartnerInsolvency · Regulatory and Compliance · Employment and Labour · Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Farida DholkawalaPartnerCorporate and Commercial · Mergers & Acquisitions · Energy and Natural Resources · Private Clients, Trusts and Estates
  • Jaya DevashishPartnerCorporate and Commercial · Regulatory and Compliance
  • Mitali MehtaPartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Corporate and Commercial · Regulatory and Compliance · Energy and Natural Resources
  • Natasha TreasurywalaPartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Banking and Finance · Corporate and Commercial · Competition
  • Nitya ChadhaPartnerCorporate and Commercial · Infrastructure and Project Development · Regulatory and Compliance · Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Pooja SablePartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Private Equity, Venture Capital & Start-ups · Corporate and Commercial · Regulatory and Compliance
  • Pradeep ManePartnerInsolvency · Private Clients, Trusts and Estates · Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Prasad GangadharanPartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Litigation and Dispute Resolution
  • Rahul ChauhanPartnerBanking and Finance · Infrastructure and Project Development · Energy and Natural Resources · Regulatory and Compliance
  • Rajeev YadavPartnerReal Estate and Construction · Insolvency
  • Rohan KumarPartnerMergers & Acquisitions · Private Equity, Venture Capital & Start-ups · Corporate and Commercial · Competition
  • Sameer PatelPartnerCorporate and Commercial · Mergers & Acquisitions · Energy and Natural Resources · Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Directory placements

3 practice areas · read from the publishers’ tables

Where the directories place Desai & Diwanji, practice area by practice area, as each table stands on the publisher’s own site. Each cell links to that table. The columns are the same on every page of this site.

Practice areaChambersThe Legal 500
Corporate and M&ABand 1Tier 3
Energy, Resources and Infrastructure—Tier 3
Banking and Finance—Tier 4

Recognition

4 announcements

What other publishers have said, as Desai & Diwanji reports it on its own site, with the lawyers each announcement names. Each entry links to the page where it was read.

From the Firm

What Desai & Diwanji has published on its own site lately: news, deals, recognitions and publications. Each links to the firm.

In the News

Coverage in which Desai & Diwanji was named. Each headline links to the publisher.

Record

Jurisdiction
India
Founded
Not stated
Entity source
The firm's own website
Firm’s site read
9 Nov 2026

Read from: headcount

On its size, the firm says: “…302 lawyers, as stated on the firm's The Legal 500 profile…”

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